Ecu's undead journal from heck.

A few days before Christmas I was in WHSmith's buying last-minute presents (which, in my defense, were all thoughtful and not cop-outs at all) when I remembered that the sixth book in the Skulduggery Pleasant series had come out a couple of months ago, and I immediately picked it up and bought it. I'd been a fan since the first book had been released, but I'd been a bit put off by the lack of coherent, bound-together fandom and the fact that as I got older, the fans seemed to be getting younger. I'd pretty much abandoned it to be honest, but I'd always loved the series - when I read the recent book I remembered why. They're well written, and accessible, and great, and they come with everything I love; gore, fights, sharp suits, flashy magic and sarcastic as hell characters, one of whom is a Skeleton and a Detective (hence the tagline of the first novel, self. Duh).  

I've had Derek Landy's blog bookmarked on my internet bar forever since I got my computer, and hadn't the heart to take it off - I started reading it again, fell back in love with the crazy but tiiiiiiny fandom, flailed with some Tumblrites and basically used it as a crutch to help me through the 2nd series of Sherlock, because my god. I'm still writing my Marriage Blanc fic, but I've since pooped out a 5,000 or so thing which is a Sherlock/Skulduggery Pleasant crossover - what if Sherlock's skull was Skulduggery's? - entitled 'Two Brain Cavities Are Better Than One' (inspired by redscharlach's S1 Sherlock icon of the same tagline!), made a Skulduggery FST and started a semi-in character Skulduggery blog on Tumblr basically to save my normal followers - I sensed that twoo many completely conflicting fandoms was a bit annoying, so. 

I've also started another Skulduggery WIP, mainly because I got sick of reading/whining about horribly characterised fandom interpretations of the Valduggery pairing (it's hard to find any fic at all, so if anyone disagrees with this I'd uh, love some recs?), too.

'Two Brain Cavities Are Better Than One' can be found here at AO3,
'Raising Heck', my FST, can be found here, and the Tumblr-thing can be found here.
My fic of the same name can be found here.

Also, if you're interested in the SP fandom at all I suggest you check out this comm! It's regularly updated by one person at the moment, which is good (there are three other comms for SP on LJ, all dead) but bad (because it's not fair to maintain a comm all on your lonesome!). 

So, I'm currently working through the editing of my second draft of my nano novel. I've actually got a few of my excerpts completely polished and edited as stand-a-lones, for work and my creative writing course, but now I'm making a start on the work as a whole, properly. And to help myself focus on my character's continuity (my novel is character and relationship-driven, after all), I've decided to post and illustrate some of my character files from my scrivener scribblings from way back in November. Look out for spectacularly bad art coming soon!

Freddy

Ruth’s former best friend. Seen as a bit ‘up herself’ by many of the others that know her, (i.e. "The Cockney Girl") and is followed around by "The Hipster Squad" (A group of people who are a bit sloane ranger-y, very posh and dress like Jack Wills models).

 She is the to-go person for 'new' music, as she listens to inner-city late-night radio shows and makes old fashioned mixtapes and CDs- “the only way to get around copyright these days”.
She is “Lizard Friends” with Ruth at the beginning of the book, but quickly drops her after she thinks Ruth is a lesbian; possibly has some bicurious tendencies toward Ruth, though is probably firmly in the ‘Gay When Drunk’ category.

She’s got a bit of a quick temper and won’t let any argument rest. 

Helps her older brother with his cigarette-selling empire and even has a pencilcase made out of malboro light packets.

 

Classes

She takes Music Tech and philosophy (plays the guitar and lugs round large textbooks).

 

Appearance

Pale skin and curly/frizzy (although well-managed, so only frizzy when she is off-guard) ‘burnt orange’ hair. She has slight ever-present dark circles under her eyes from staying up to listen to late-night radio and callused finger tips (from playing the guitar).
She is extremely thin and always wears a selection of charity-shop baggy jumpers, cigarette jeans and various battered shoes.

One of the sorts of hipsters who would never admit to being a hipster; a bit of a bitch.